Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 9, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss066e149154_lrg.jpg
Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on Jan. 12, 2023, during a fit check of their spacesuits inside the Quest airlock ahead of a planned spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station's power generation system. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e040058_orig.jpg
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-01gq5chesabwmhrf5na60a6mpf_0.png
Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss structure. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e041215.jpg
On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/naid75853211.jpeg
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52651369605_4555503bb1_k.jpeg
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/hubble_v372ori_potw2304a.jpg
Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068-e-40596_lrg.jpg
In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-08pd3162_orig.jpg
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e036313_orig.jpg
This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia16613_orig.jpg
Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 3, 2023, to view the scientific instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/e1a-pia25599-1041.jpg
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss068e045124_orig.jpg
An American bald eagle occupies a nest near Kennedy Parkway North at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 8, 2023. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ksc-20230208-ph-jbs01_0049_orig.jpg
While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre Island, a barrier island along the coast of Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e373246_lrg.jpg
Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain of the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona on Oct. 5, 2022. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/wjs_2270_orig.jpg
As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jamesa_stokes.jpg
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21590_orig.jpg
Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg
The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52706618165_0fff7e8f3b_k.jpeg